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That fee dwarfs what we paid for Crouch.

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I think Harry (skill-wise) is in a different class to Heskey, but the main difference is that Harry had an intelligent manager who believed him and team-mates with enough quality to coax him back to his near-best. Emille had a fat-headed, ommadawn-manager who doesn't know how to play, manage or lose weight and team-mates who couldn't raise their own game, let alone boost the fragile confidence of someone like him.

Sorry, mate :- nothing personal.

This is a good point. If you thought about it, there are probably dozens of players for all teams who were top class for about a year or two and then just fell away, Veron is probably another example - apparently brilliant at Lazio, cack at ManU (thankfully). Emille was definitely one of these for us, and maybe we should be a little more grateful for those 18 months. Even Harry for us was brilliant for 6 months, then poor, quite frankly, for the next 18. He's up there again now, which is great for us.

Scales is a good shout. He did reasonably well for us, but always seemed to have a niggling injury and wasn't as dominant as he might have been. Same could be true of Ruddock, actually. He could have been SO much better for us than he was, but he clearly didn't look after himself and was a core part of the so-called "Spice" boys. Perhaps his reputation was somewhat preserved by some cracking games, and particularly the third goal in the ManU 3-3 at Anfield. Strangely enough, this was also Clough's high point. I was at the World Cup in 94 and saw Babb in New York and Orlando and he was majestic. I think we signed him shortly afterwards, and he wasn't any more. My thought was that he was suited to a slower pace of game, which the heat of the U.S. brought out. McAteer also played for Ireland out there and was good, but he was another that never quite hit the heights at LFC, possibly because he was played right-back or right-mid when he really was a potentially solid central midfielder. Makes you think how lucky we are at Centre-Back now with Sami, Carra (and hopefully Dagger) and how lucky we were with Hansen, Thommo and Lawro. In between, with the possible exception of Mark Wright and Torben Piechnik no-one has really "owned" the jersey and the heart of the fans.

Frank McGarvey David Hodgson Paul Walsh Phil Babb Nigel Clough Paul Ince Chris Kirkland

Hamann is Ian Rush compared to Momo (and that IS a fact). Truth is that if we'd never have signed Didi from Newcastle all those years ago there would have been DOZENS of teams that would have driven a coach and horses through our midfield. We'd have gotten NOWHERE near second, third OR fourth in the League, and Houllier would have been sacked two or three years before he was.

"claiming that LFC are looking to offload Cisse"..... Finger on the pulse, there....

Hope it goes well for you tonight lads. Best of luck

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So, given that he is out, and he is ..... How are we gonna set ourselves out? Is playing Kewell behing Crouch the right thing to do? He hasn't played there since the CL Final last year (behind Baros) has he? It's all very well playing Cisse in an (almost) dead league game, but would you really play him left side in a Cup Final? It's a tough one. There might be a call to play Riise there with Warnock behind or Kewell there will Mori (or Cisse, natch) up front. Tough one. Shame Zenden has been out for months.

How 'bout ..................................... now?

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Forensic accountants for the club are pouring over any evidence Reebok have. Reebok are done for.